Fedora 27 Coreutils Advisory: CVE-2017-18018 Race Condition Risk

These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of

the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

- doc: warn about following symlinks recursively in chown/chgrp (CVE-2017-18018)

- mv -n: do not overwrite the destination - mv -n: provide more reliable

diagnostic messages

[ 1 ] Bug #1532285 - CVE-2017-18018 coreutils: race condition vulnerability in chown and chgrp [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532285

su -c 'dnf upgrade coreutils' at the command line.

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https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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